Polygonal billiards, translations flows, and deforming geometries

Series
CDSNS Colloquium
Time
Monday, November 25, 2013 - 4:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 05
Speaker
Rodrigo Trevino – Cornell Univ./Tel Aviv Univ.
Organizer
Rafael de la Llave
The three objects in the title come together in the study of ergodic properties of geodesic flows on flat surfaces. I will go over how these three things are intimately related, state some classical results about the unique ergodicity of translation flows and present new results which generalize much of the classical theory and also apply to non-compact (infinite genus) surfaces.